Patents by Inventor Takashi Yoshino

Takashi Yoshino has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10123714
    Abstract: High-accuracy magnetic measurement is performed by efficiently using nitrogen-vacancy pairs in all orientations. A magnetic measurement apparatus includes a diamond crystal and an image sensor. The diamond crystal has nitrogen-vacancy pairs. The image sensor detects the intensities of fluorescence generated by an exciting light applied to the diamond crystal by using a plurality of pixels. The nitrogen-vacancy pairs of the diamond crystal are made to one-to-one correspond to the pixels. The fluorescence generated by one nitrogen-vacancy pair is received by one pixel made to correspond to the nitrogen-vacancy pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hatano, Koji Yamada, Takashi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20180306428
    Abstract: A heat discharge structure that includes a film of a nitride of a group 13 element having a first main face, a second main face and an outer side end face. The structure further includes a portion for containing the light source device. The portion has a through hole opening at the first main face and the second main face, and a fixing face for fixing the light source device. The fixing face faces the through hole and contacts the light source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Namerikawa, Takashi Yoshino, Katsuhiro Imai, Yoshitaka Kuraoka
  • Publication number: 20180274128
    Abstract: A crystal substrate 1 includes an underlying layer 2 and a thick film 3. The underlying layer 2 is composed of a crystal of a nitride of a group 13 element and includes a first main face 2a and a second main face 2b. The thick film 3 is composed of a crystal of a nitride of a group 13 element and provided over the first main face of the underlying layer. The underlying layer 2 includes a low carrier concentration region 5 and a high carrier concentration region 4 both extending between the first main face 2a and the second main face 2b. The low carrier concentration region 5 has a carrier concentration of 1017/cm3 or lower and a defect density of 107/cm2 or lower. The high carrier concentration region 4 has a carrier concentration of 1019/cm3 or higher and a defect density of 108/cm2 or higher. The thick film 3 has a carrier concentration of 1018/cm3 or higher and 1019/cm3 or lower and a defect density of 107/cm2 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Makoto IWAI, Takashi YOSHINO
  • Patent number: 10063034
    Abstract: An external resonator type light emitting system includes a light source oscillating a semiconductor laser light by itself and a grating device providing an external resonator with the light source. The system performs oscillation in single mode. The light source includes an active layer oscillating the semiconductor laser light. The grating device includes an optical waveguide having an incident face to which the semiconductor laser is incident and an emitting face of emitting an emitting light of a desired wavelength, a Bragg grating formed in the optical waveguide, and a propagating portion provided between the incident face and the Bragg grating. Formulas (1) to (5) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jungo Kondo, Shoichiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Yoshino, Yukihisa Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10030318
    Abstract: A composite substrate includes a polycrystalline ceramic substrate, a silicon substrate directly bonded to the polycrystalline ceramic substrate, a seed crystal film formed on the silicon substrate by vapor phase process and made of a nitride of a group 13 element, and a gallium nitride crystal layer grown on the seed crystal film by flux method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kuraoka, Yasunori Iwasaki, Takashi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20180202067
    Abstract: An underlying substrate including a seed crystal layer of a group 13 nitride, wherein projections and recesses repeatedly appear in stripe shapes at a principal surface of the seed crystal layer, and the projections have a level difference of 0.3 to 40 ?m and a width of 5 to 100 ?m, and the recesses have a bottom thickness of 2 ?m or more and a width of 50 to 500 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Takayuki HIRAO, Makoto IWAI, Katsuhiro IMAI, Takashi YOSHINO
  • Patent number: 10000864
    Abstract: A crystal layer of a nitride of a group 13 element includes a pair of main surfaces. The crystal layer includes high carrier concentration regions having a carrier concentration of 1×1018/cm3 or more and low carrier concentration regions having a carrier concentration of 9×1017/cm3 or less, viewed in a cross section perpendicular to the main surfaces of the crystal layer. Each of the low carrier concentration regions is extended in an elongated shape. The low carrier concentration regions include association parts. The low carrier concentration regions are extended continuously between the pair of the main surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Iwai, Takashi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 9941442
    Abstract: A crystal substrate is composed of a crystal of a nitride of a group 13 element and has a first main face and a second main face. The crystal substrate includes a low carrier concentration region and a high carrier concentration region both extending between the first main face and second main face. The low carrier concentration region has a carrier concentration of 1018/cm3 or lower and a defect density of 107/cm2 or lower. The high carrier concentration region has a carrier concentration of 1019/cm3 or higher and a defect density of 108/cm2 or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Iwai, Takashi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 9933569
    Abstract: An evanescent light generation element for oscillating evanescent light from an optical waveguide to a clad layer, including a 0.1 ?m-10 ?m thin layer composed of a ferroelectric single crystal or oriented crystal having first and second principal surfaces, and incident side end and exit side end surfaces. A ridge optical waveguide is formed in the thin layer and extends between the incident and exit side end surfaces of the thin layer. At least a pair of grooves is formed on both sides of the ridge optical waveguide in the thin layer and opened at the first principal surface of the thin layer. A clad layer is provided on the first principal surface or the second principal surface. A width of the ridge optical waveguide at the exit side end surface is less than a width of the ridge optical waveguide at the incident side end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungo Kondo, Shoichiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Yoshino, Yukihisa Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9893234
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device composite substrate suitable for manufacturing large-area light emitting devices at low cost. The light emitting device composite substrate comprises a substrate composed of an oriented polycrystalline alumina sintered body, and a light emitting functional layer formed on the substrate and having two or more layers composed of semiconductor single crystal grains, wherein each of the two or more layers has a single crystal structure in a direction approximately normal to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Morimichi Watanabe, Jun Yoshikawa, Tsutomu Nanataki, Katsuhiro Imai, Tomohiko Sugiyama, Takashi Yoshino, Yukihisa Takeuchi, Kei Sato
  • Publication number: 20170372889
    Abstract: A seed crystal layer is provided on a supporting body. A laser light is irradiated from a side of the supporting body to provide an altered portion along an interface between the supporting body and seed crystal layer. The altered layer is composed of a nitride of a group 13 element and comprising a portion into which dislocation defects are introduced or an amorphous portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro SAKAI, Takashi YOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20170330749
    Abstract: A self-supporting substrate includes a first nitride layer grown by hydride vapor deposition method or ammonothermal method and comprising a nitride of one or more element selected from the group consisting of gallium, aluminum and indium; and a second nitride layer grown by a sodium flux method on the first nitride layer and comprising a nitride of one or more element selected from the group consisting of gallium, aluminum and indium. The first nitride layer includes a plurality of single crystal grains arranged therein and being extended between a pair of main faces of the first nitride layer. The second nitride layer includes a plurality of single crystal grains arranged therein and being extended between a pair of main faces of the second nitride layer. The first nitride layer has a thickness larger than a thickness of the second nitride layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi YOSHINO, Katsuhiro IMAI, Masahiro SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20170268125
    Abstract: A crystal layer of a nitride of a group 13 element includes a pair of main surfaces. The crystal layer includes high carrier concentration regions having a carrier concentration of 1×1018/cm3 or more and low carrier concentration regions having a carrier concentration of 9×1017/cm3 or less, viewed in a cross section perpendicular to the main surfaces of the crystal layer. Each of the low carrier concentration regions is extended in an elongated shape. The low carrier concentration regions include association parts. The low carrier concentration regions are extended continuously between the pair of the main surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Iwai, Takashi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20170260644
    Abstract: A crystal growth apparatus includes a pressure-resistant vessel; a plurality of support tables arranged inside the pressure-resistant vessel; inner vessels each placed over the support tables, respectively; growth vessels contained the inner vessels, respectively; a heating means for heating the growth vessels; and a central rotating shaft connected to the support tables. The central rotating shaft is distant from central axes of the inner vessels, respectively. A seed crystal, a raw material of the Group 13 element and a flux are charged in each of the growth vessels, and the growth vessels are heated to form a melt and a nitrogen-containing gas is supplied to the melt to grow a crystal of a nitride of said Group 13 element while the central rotating shaft is rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshino, Katsuhiro Imai, Takanao Shimodaira, Takashi Wada
  • Publication number: 20170263815
    Abstract: A crystal substrate is composed of a crystal of a nitride of a group 13 element and has a first main face and a second main face. The crystal substrate includes a low carrier concentration region and a high carrier concentration region both extending between the first main face and second main face. The low carrier concentration region has a carrier concentration of 1018/cm3 or lower and a defect density of 107/cm2 or lower. The high carrier concentration region has a carrier concentration of 1019/cm3 or higher and a defect density of 108/cm2 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Iwai, Takashi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 9762570
    Abstract: Information processing system includes a first certification device which executes a first temporary certification, creates a first temporary certificate, transmits it to an external device, carries out a first formal certification and creates the first formal certificate, a second certification device which executes a second temporary certification based on the first temporary certification, creates a second temporary certificate, transmits it to the external device, carries out a second formal certification and creates the second formal certificate, and a processing device which verifies a validity of the first formal certificate corresponding to the first temporary certificate and a validity of the second formal certificate corresponding to the second temporary certificate from the user, in response to a information processing request from the user and determines to execute the information processing corresponding to the information processing request based on the verification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto Omori, Shinichiro Nishizawa, Yasushi Toriwaki, Takashi Yoshino, Hisashi Sugawara, Masaki Nagao, Kosuke Tao, Keiko Ishii, Tsuyoshi Taneishi, Kenichi Yamashita, Mitsuhiro Sato, Atsushi Wataki
  • Publication number: 20170250519
    Abstract: A vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) whose blueshift is reduced also in a high intensity range of emitted laser light is realized. A surface-emitting device for VECSEL includes a base substrate made of GaN and c-axis oriented, and an emitter structure formed of a group 13 nitride semiconductor and provided on the base substrate. The emitter structure is formed of unit deposition parts, each of which is provided on the base substrate and includes a DBR layer having a distributed Bragg reflection structure and an active layer that has a multiple quantum well structure and generates excitation emission in response to irradiation with external laser light. A c-axis orientation of each of the unit deposition parts conforms to the c-axis orientation of the base substrate located directly below the unit deposition parts. Grooves are formed between the unit deposition parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kuraoka, Kentaro Nonaka, Tomohiko Sugiyama, Takashi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20170234941
    Abstract: A magnetometer includes a diamond sensor, an excitation light source, a diamond sensor case, and a photodiode. The excitation light source irradiates the diamond sensor case with excitation light. In the diamond sensor case, a reflection film which reflects excitation light is formed on either a front surface or an inner surface, and the diamond sensor is stored. The photodiode detects intensity of fluorescence generated from the diamond sensor. The diamond sensor case includes a fluorescence output window and an excitation-light reception window. Fluorescence generated by the diamond sensor is output through the fluorescence output window. Excitation light emitted by the excitation light source is received through the excitation-light reception window. The photodiode is provided on a side of a second surface opposite to a first surface which is a magnetism measurement surface of the diamond sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Yuji HATANO, Takashi YOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20170211797
    Abstract: It is provided a heat discharge structure for a light source device emitting a semiconductor laser. The structure fixes the light source device and discharges heat. The structure includes a film of a nitride of a group 13 element having a first main face, a second main face and an outer side end face. The structure further includes a portion for containing the light source device. The portion has a through hole opening at the first main face and the second main face, and a fixing face for fixing the light source device. The fixing face faces the through hole and contacts the light source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Namerikawa, Takashi Yoshino, Katsuhiro Imai, Yoshitaka Kuraoka
  • Patent number: 9640720
    Abstract: Provided is a surface light-emitting device comprising a substrate composed of an oriented polycrystalline zinc oxide sintered body in a plate shape, a light emitting functional layer provided on the substrate, and an electrode provided on the light emitting functional layer. According to the present invention, a surface light-emitting device having high luminous efficiency can be inexpensively provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Morimichi Watanabe, Katsuhiro Imai, Jun Yoshikawa, Tsutomu Nanataki, Takashi Yoshino, Yukihisa Takeuchi